Have had to part with many of my old books due to moving around, but I’ll never give up my Ian Allan “At War” collection!

Chaz Bowyer wrote the Hurricane’s entry in the series, “Hurricane At War.”

No offence but did you actually read any of the above? Illustrious has already been towed away.

Yes, I understand that it’s already a done deal and the ship won’t be preserved.

I could have made it more clear that my question was theoretical.

“How you like that, Mistah Hitler?!!”

The stamped markings in the second photo are certainly Russian.

The lower-case “r” is the Russian abbreviation for “year,” so the manufacturing date for the grip was February of 1944 (“2-44r”).

Thank you, Mike. That is a fantastic artifact.

I imagine it will be irresistable to kids who want to climb on it.

I have read several times over the years about the a/c of Manfred von Richthofen and Oswald Boelcke being destroyed in an air raid on a museum in Berlin.

Sometimes they say it was a Dr.1 Triplane and an Albatros D.V, sometimes two Dr.1s. Other times the Russians who occupied Berlin are blamed for destroying them.

Don’t know the truth.

It’s “Explosive Ordnance Disposal” in the US, as well.

Here’s the page from the IWM catalog for the image. Might help narrow the search.

4 Commando, Sword Beach.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205203185